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 Terre-�i/3s. N� 'tis na,_,feous. low, and infipid; you are invited to Chan:pa:gne, ar.d treated with curds and whey. l fi,'al] give you two or three inttancesot thor: ecclcliaica! com[liment-mongers. The name of the fi�t I have as enfirdy forgot, as, I doubt not, ia a tow }'ears will be tiat of the fecond. I can, hob'ever, produce the kook, tho' at prefcnt I have it not by me' 'tisa treat? on the ,l,ger offi;. The soytrend author dedicates it to Sir Thom,s ?lyer, a noed man in the time ofthat pious prince King Chun[rs the cond,'nnd gives the living and tlie dead a bout at cudgels after the following man. ner i nrce a,.omm , m?s he (there are his yet, "word;) ha,'e been mighty famous m the world, ' vi=. 2boreas Meuias, Thomas a. Beebet and Si "T..oma 1ore. 'All three, continues he were  ..,; ,, .... .,, natorios offenders "their Ki:g and Counrr'. Bt the Sir "I addref ,o is the true of fubje&s, and the re. ' ty te o ?rate, ms." Biers us &e what w have had a lucky go,!fither! How unhappy were ) poor broth =nd 1, to be chifien'd ]ames a ]erobo.am  -- You'll fddom meet with a name- ke of cus worth a fa. rthing. From tis Tom-fool proctcd we to the entided 7o,ph. To that name no one can the ver/bc;'} of men }ad, it; whom poet o imi- rites ju thus fir, thro the loyalty of his hear= he would fiin eoflave u, all to his King and mailer. 'Tis vtry well known that a brave and noble Lord did at the battle of Bknheim lore his in te caufe of hberty. This was certainly a cir- umance highly honourable for his :di, and one that might e handlbmely touch'd upon in a dedication - Let us e how our bungler mum- bles it: even thus; he iends him his fi after having C&r',t aM 8co', him rtem, telis him, tt he could not in one rete corn

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